Scorched Land Horse

The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...

Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...

In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

In Australian horse racing, most punters bet with bookmakers all their lives without ever learning how a bookie makes his book, and it is hard to beat a man at a job you cannot describe. Statsman, ...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

It was a case of passion winning out over a career as a physiotherapist for trainer Ben Ahrens who landed his first Saturday metropolitan winner with Spechenka at Doomben.Ahrens has been training f...

John Singleton has delivered a withering character assessment

Rob Heathcote was born and raised in Tasmania but regards himself as a Queenslander and is on a mission to win the state's premier race, the Stradbroke Handicap.The trainer barracks for the Maroons...

Jockey Greg Childs has paid tribute to champion mare Sunline who has been put down after losing her long battle with laminitis, a disease affecting the hooves.Childs said it was a sad day for racin...

George Hanlon was one of Australia's most respected trainers who will be remembered for crafting some of the nation's finest stayers.Hanlon, who has died aged 92, was at times vague, but was incred...

George Hanlon was one of Australia's most respected trainers who will be remembered for crafting some of the nation's finest stayers.Hanlon, who has died aged 92, was at times vague, but was incred...